If you haven't figured it out, we're in China, people. Get with the times.

Ok, first off, we apologize for the infrequent blogs. We are in China. Internet is a scarcer commodity here. We have some access at our hostel, but its a little questionable, so no photos.

Let's get you up to speed. We flew into Beijing on Sept 15. It was nice. We ate food. We saw old Chinese stuff. We walked along a pretty good wall (some people claim that it's great, but we would like to inspect more walls before we give it "great" status) for10 km. Jason was sick in New Zealand, then Corinne got sick in China (twice!), then Jason got sick in China. But the official prediction is that tomorrow will be the first day in nearly a month that we are both healthy.

Corinne thinks that Chinese squaters are the best thing ever. Really, think about it. You don't have to worry about what you sit on because there is no sitting. I find it quite relaxing! Jason pooped on a train! It was tiring.

There is a massive holiday in China right now. Imagine 1.3 billion people on vacation. Travel is difficult, to say the least. We had to cut our Beijing trip a bit short to get a train to Chengdu. Our train ride was 33 hours long. It was nice! Seriously. Squatters and trains are awesome!

So now we're in Chengdu, in the Sichuan province. We were going to try to go to try to go to Tibet, but it was too expensive and too controlled. A bad combination. Now we chill in Chengdu.

We are staying at an awesome hostel called Sim's Cozy Guesthouse. They just got two PUPPIES two days ago!! Corinne likes puppies!

Actually she won't leave them alone. Now the puppy follows her around. But I told her that he follows a mop around, so it wasn't much of a compliment.

Corinne thinks that Jason is just jealous because the puppy doesn't follow him around.

Harumph.

Let us tell you about yesterday! It was lovely! We went to a public park in the city. Tons of Chinese people were there with their families playing games, drinking tea, dancing, etc. It was a very cool atmosphere to be in. We decided to sit down in one of the "teahouses" for awhile. Since, Jason was a bit sick, and not in the mood for a million people, sitting was a good option. So was getting a massage! Logically, so was getting the wax scraped out of our ears! That was an experience.... we have some lovely (and some gruesome) photos to prove it, but since no photos today, you'll just have to take our word. We saw about 30 Chinese ladies (and two men) doing a strange line dance in the park. Corinne joined them. Jason took photos. Another nice time. Then we went to a food market. There is some huge food festival happening. There was some wierd food. For example, we saw a bowl of live scorpions just waiting to be skewered and fried and eaten. Other 'highlights' include, beetles, starfish, millipede lookin' thing, giant scorpions, and tenticles from some (formerly) sea-dwelling beast. We opted for that latter. So, sea-beast on a stick it was. Spicy!

Now, we're having a down day and just reading and relaxing and playing with puppies and making sure that Jason is better for tomorrow. Tomorrow we plan to try to take a bus to a town to take a bus to a town that seems nice. It's a quaint little village by chinese standards. We'll spend the night and be back here for the night after.

There. We have blogged. Please still be our friends even though we don't blog very often.

Have a nice day!

-Jason and corinne